On fourth day of protests, Newsom tells demonstrators: "Your rage is real. Express it."
Source: The Mercury News
As President Trump threatened to mobilize the military in states that fail to control lawlessness, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday voiced common cause with the activists who have taken to the streets to denounce police brutality across the country, saying your rage is real. Express it so that we can hear it.
The black community is not responsible for what is happening right now. We are our institutions are accountable to this moment, Newsom said at a news conference streamed from Genesis Church in south Sacramento.
But the governor delivered a different message to what he called a small group of opportunists who have turned peaceful protests toward violence and looting in the wake of the killing of George Floyd a black man who died last week after Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was filmed kneeling on Floyds neck for over eight minutes.
To those that want to exploit this moment and that want to fan violence and fear we hear you as well, but we dont have the same sensitivities as it relates to those that are trying to exercise their voice from a place of hurt and pain, he said.
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